Kellys Hint Of Lemon New York Cheesecake Recipes

Steps:

• To make the crust: Butter a 9-inch springform pan - choose one that has sides that are 2 3/4 inches high (if the sides are lower, you will have cheesecake batter left over) - and wrap the bottom of the pan in a double layer of aluminum foil.
• Stir the crumbs, sugar and salt together in a medium bowl. Pour over the melted butter and stir until all of the dry ingredients are uniformly moist. (I do this with my fingers.) Turn the ingredients into the springform pan and use your fingers to pat an even layer of crumbs along the bottom of the pan and about halfway up the sides. Don't worry if the sides are not perfectly even or if the crumbs reach above or below the midway point on the sides. Put the pan in the freezer while you preheat the over. (The crust can be covered and frozen for up to 2 months.)
• Center a rack in the over, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and place the springform on a baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. Set the crust aside to cool on a rack while you make the cheesecake.
• Reduce the oven temperature to 325 degrees.
• To make the cheesecake: Put a kettle of water on to boil.
• Working with a stand mixer, preferably fitted with the paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the cream cheese at medium speed until it is soft and creamy, about 4 minutes. With the mixer running, add the sugar and salt and continue to beat for another 4 minutes or so, until the cream cheese is light. Beat in the vanilla. Add the eggs, one by one, beating for 1 full minute after each addition - you want a well-aerated batter. Reduce the mixer speed to low and stir in the sour cream and/or heavy cream.
• Put the foil-wrapped springform pan in a roasting pan that is large enough to hold the pan with some space around it.
• Give the batter a few stirs with a rubber spatula, just to make sure that nothing has been left unmixed at the bottom of the bowl, and scrape the batter into the springform pan. The batter will reach the rim of the pan. (If you have a pan with lower sides and have leftover batter, you can bake the batter in a buttered ramekin or small soufflé mold.) Put the roasting pan in the oven and pour enough boiling water into the roaster to come halfway up the sides of the springform pan.
• Bake the cheesecake for 1 hour 30 minutes, at which point the top will be browned (and perhaps cracked) and may have risen just a little above the rim of the pan. Turn off the oven's heat and prop the oven door open with a wooden spoon. Allow the cheesecake to luxuriate in its water bath for another hour.
• After 1 hour, carefully pull the setup out of the oven, lift the springform pan out of the roaster - be careful, there may be some hot water in the aluminum foil - and remove the foil. Let the cheesecake come to room temperature on a cooling rack.
• When the cake is cool, cover the top lightly and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, although overnight is better.
• At serving time, remove the sides of the springform pan - you can use a hairdryer to do this - and set the cake on a serving platter.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• mix together graham cracker crumbs, 1/4 cup melted butter and sugar with a fork until crumbs moistened.
• Pour crumbs into the bottom of a 9 inch springform pan and press down firmly.
• set aside pan and crust.
• In a blender, blend sour cream, 1/2 cup sugar, eggs and vanilla on medium-high speed for about one minute or until smooth.
• Leaving the blender running, add pieces of cream cheese through top of blender one at a time; blend to smooth.
• Blend in lemon zest and juice.
• Turn of blender and gently stir mixture to get out air bubbles.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake for 45 minutes.
• When finished allow to cool in oven.
• Refrigerate for at least 4 hours before serving.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees.
• In the bowl of a food processor, combine graham crackers, brown sugar, salt and cinnamon (if using) and process until you've got fine crumbs. Transfer the crumbs to a medium bowl and add melted butter. Using your hands, mix well until no dry spots remain (crumb mixture should not be sandy or dry, but hold small clumps when pressed together).
• Press crust evenly into the bottom and at least 1 1/2-inches up the sides of a 9-inch springform pan. Use the bottom of a measuring cup to make sure the bottom is as even as possible. Bake on the middle rack until crust is set and just starting to brown around the edges, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Remove pan from the oven and set aside while you prepare the filling. Reduce heat to 300 degrees.
• Prepare the filling: Combine cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, vanilla and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. Using a paddle attachment, beat on high until mixture is completely smooth, scraping down the sides and bottom of the bowl as necessary, about 4 minutes.
• Reduce speed to medium and 1 at a time, add eggs and yolk, scraping down the sides and bottom of the bowl after each egg is added. With the mixer on low, add flour and beat just to blend, until no lumps remain.
• Pour filling into prepared crust (if filling goes above the crust, that is O.K.). Bake until the edges of the cheesecake are completely set and the 2-inch inner circle of the cheesecake wobbles just slightly, 60 to 70 minutes.
• Turn heat off and let cheesecake remain in the oven for another 10 minutes. Remove cheesecake from oven and let sit on a wire rack to cool completely at room temperature. When cool, transfer to refrigerator until totally set, at least 6 hours, preferably overnight.

Steps:

• Lay butter and cream cheese out for a hour or so till they are nice and soft.
• Put a pan of water on the bottom shelf of your oven.
• Preheat Oven to 450° Degrees.
• Mix gram cracker crumbs with the softened 4 tablespoons of butter and the 1 teaspoon of sugar.
• Press the graham cracker mixture into the bottom of the spring form pan and about half way up the sides.
• In a large bowl mix the 4 8oz packages of softened cream cheese and the 1 1/2 cups of sugar until smooth. Then mix in the 3/4 cup of whole milk until smooth. Then mix in the 4 eggs 1 egg at a time mix just enough to incorporate then add the next egg and so on. Then mix in the 1 1/8 Cups sour cream the flour the 1 1/8 table spoon pure vanilla extract the juice from 1/2 of a lemon and mix till smooth.
• Pour the cheese cake mixture into the spring form pan.
• Put the spring form pan on the top shelf of the oven and bake at 450° degrees for 10 minutes. Do not open the oven door.
• Turn the temperature of the oven down to 250° degrees and bake for another 1 hour and 20 minutes. Do not open the oven door.
• Turn the oven off and let the cheese cake sit in the oven for 1 hour.
• Remove the cheesecake from the oven and refrigerate it overnight.
• Enjoy :P.